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[Off-topic] Purple Drama Llama:
Let me tell you another story...

Four years ago, I started subscribing to the New York Times, the Daily News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.

Then one morning I heard the guy across the hall open his door and my newspapers were gone. The whole stack.

I let it go because I get the full set of papers comped at work, and also because it just wasn’t worth the confrontation: He was a really grumpy old man who just growled and grunted at people– like the man from the movie “Up” but 6’ 3”.

This went on for several years, until he died.

After that, I started to get the papers for about a month. Then one by one they started disappearing again, except for the Post.

This time it’s the lady next door to me. She’s a very quirky older woman who has been in building for 30 years.

She’s very nice and actually reads my papers for me and pulls articles out and puts them on my door with a magnet and a thought-you’d-be-interested note.

The reason I don’t ask her to stop, or confront her, is that we have a nice little thing going: She’s my built-in nanny-cam.

She is home all day and tells everything my nanny does with my son. She will tell me she saw my son and nanny walking and singing a song and totally happy together. Or that another nanny brought three kids over for two hours. Or she will tell me really loved the way my son was talking to my son in the hallway.

She's like my own little Reader's Digest.
[Off-topic] :
My cousin died because of a drunk driver on October 11th, 2009 around 2:45AM.

Drive carefully, please?
[Off-topic] M_T_M:
What the.....? my story was not copied and pasted from no site you fool....it came straight from my cerebelum.
[Off-topic] captainstu72:
Sorry to hear that G1.

Okay this isn't about me, but it is somewhat related to G1s post.

My fianceé and I have been together for 3 years, having known each over for 6 or so.

But 4 years ago, she was also involved in an accident with a vehicle. Some twat on a motorbike came hurtling through stationary traffic on the wrong side of the road, and then cut the blind corner he could not see around, where Sarah was crossing the road.

He hit her straight on her right side, resulting in Sarah actually being launched into the air a few feet, landing on her head, fracturing her skull, some fingers, her collar bone and fortunately, only severly bruising her legs resulting in some heamatomas, not that she would know this part! Fortunately, the road was a commuter route to a hospital, and there was a nurse in a car, she rushed out and helped Sarah, cleared her airway and supported her - apparently things didn't look good. The guy on the bike had continued riding for a few (20) meters afterwards, as "he wasn't aware he had hit something"

Ambulance turned up within a matter of minutes, got Sarah into the ambulance, and took her on a 100mile drive to London, as she was deemed to serious to be going to the local hospital. Sarah died twice on the way up, and then was in a coma for 2 weeks, with a large portion of her skull being taken out to relieve pressure on her brain. She was given a 4% chance to live, 100% of that being in a wheel chair needing very extensive help, and left unable to have children due to her pituitary gland being damaged.

Over the next few weeks and months, Sarah came on leaps and bounds, was wlaking, tlaking, writing, and could remember events up until the incident. All of this was unimaginable by the specialists. So, so years passed, and Sarah and I finally got together, after me initially asking her out before her accident!

So here we are now, we have a gorgeous little girl, and Sarah has made a remarkable recovery. And we are getting married next July at the Spinnaker Tower (Locals would know it :P)

So please, do Drive Carefully, not everyone is as lucky. I also have a friend who had very similar incidents to Sarah, however, they were not so lucky and died....

(Sorry for the morbidness, G1's post just made me think of this and how lucky I am to have Sarah!)
[Off-topic] M_T_M:
Wow! Amazing story captainstu :eek:. I'm glad everything went well and congrats on the weding:D
[Off-topic] captainstu72:
Thanks :) Really looking forward to it so much left to plan, but it will all be fine! (Sarah loves planning things!) I think the only thing I have left to worry about are rings and a suit. May even get the rings covered this weekend :)
[Off-topic] :
It's alright. And I'm glad she's alright. Congrats on the married-ness! NOW I CAN LAUGH AT YOU, M_T_M, AND MR CLOWN! BLAHAHA!
[Off-topic] Zd0s:
these storys are sad

any happy ones
[Off-topic] Janko00:
this story is very interesting
[Off-topic] Mr. Clown:
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:......What you are talking about lewis?
[Off-topic] Janko00:
this story is very interesting

:) :)
[Off-topic] miniterror:
with a little luck if the appartment satifies me im moving out of my parents house next week:D

lolts of things to arrange though as i need internet:p

lucky for me i cook my own shots:p
[Off-topic] M_T_M:
The Clown is back!!! :eek:

In one ocasion I visited my aunt Carolina, the deaf and mute one. She was cooking some mexican dish and had the music real loud. After about 40 minutes of listening to Shakira and Ricardo Arjona over and over again...I decided not only lower the volume but change the radio station too....at that moment she turned around and said to me..."hey..I was listening to that!!!"

After that day I do not trust anyone over 65 years old :(
[Off-topic] ClementNg23:
sad stories..... how touching

now since im sorta like an overemotioned person,

I i read the whole thread right before bedtime,

I am gonna have a sad nigh tonight....

but anyway may peace be with you all,

and most of all, drive safe.

p.s. can we change subject from talking about those sad stories thx :)
[Off-topic] Zd0s:
I'm camping for a couple for a couple of weeks, very good spot ;)
[Off-topic] :
I used to be a postman(mail man) and my hair is always different colours short long, mohawk what ever i fancy, one day i figured out one of my customers was one of my friends mother, well she was blind, anyway one day i went to work with a shaved head with the lines of a tennis ball and my hair ded yellow, low and behold this woman was in the garden doing her gardening ( how i never no) but turned around when i walked through the gate and said youre hair looks very nice today ERM WTF you're supposed to be blind lol, after that i never trust the older generation lol
[Off-topic] :
Annnd, this morning. I wake up and walk into my moms room and lay on the futon. I ask her why we didn't go to church and she says it's because she didn't wake up. Few minutes later;

Her: "We're going to Megan's house, are you coming?"

Me: "Why?"

Her: "Her grandma died this morning."

She had 2 monthes.

Damn.

R.I.P. =/
[Off-topic] captainstu72:
I haven't been camping for ages... probabaly because I don't like it. I'd much prefer to go to a nice hotel!

but that being said, where you off too? Bournemouth area has lots of nice spots, or further into the new forest is also good.

And G1, sorry to hear about another loss, its really not good.

On a more positive note, Sarah did a 5k run yesterday (Sunday) in 30mins and managed to raise over £100 for Cancer Research :) (With no practise runs :) )
[Off-topic] ClementNg23:
hey G1...... are your stories facts or fiction:confused::confused:

cause you are starting to scare me... :p

argh and sad stories before bedtime! again.... :mad::D
[Off-topic] M_T_M:
After getting out of my car I noticed on e of the tires being flat which made me kind of mad since I was in the middle of the Sahara. I opened up the trunk and got the spare tire out, the car jack and whatever tools I was going to need to fix or at least replace my tire.

When I kneeled down to remove the nuts from the flat tire a little tiny voice caught my attention.

The voice kept saying "help me!" over and over again. I looked franticly every where to find out where the voice was coming from and then after I walked around the car I realized that the voice was coming from under the flat tire...it was a porcupine...he was the reason for my tire to be flat...I pulled him out from under the tire and gave him a Fresca...he drank it and we became the best of friends

:D
[Off-topic] :
Just had a right laugh nice weather so walked to town, went in Carphone Whorehouse and said i need the Internet settings for android on virgin and he took my phone to check the settings and just looked at it didnt no what to do, the same in Virgin media lol, only use i have actually found for Android on my leo so far to confuse the shops LMFAO
[Off-topic] vmiguel:
You're going to leave us not knowing the fate of the tyre???

Come on, he is the main character in that story!!!
[Off-topic] Purple Drama Llama:
:eek:

And I had such high expectations of the United Kingdomians.... Disappointing.....
[Vibrant General] Neffstarr:
what the wallpaper size guys,, i make wallpapers and want to start on some for the Vibrant
[Vibrant General] djdiablo:
...

Found out from Android Forums that it is 960x800....it has to be wide enough to be able to be seen as you scroll through the seven home screens.

They also recommended uploadig it WITHOUT using KIES since KIES will automatically resize it to the one native screen size of 480x800.

Share your wallpapers once there done, Bro!

:)
[Vibrant General] Neffstarr:
will do tonight i will work on some and that size sounds about right

here are are some iTweaked for the G1 MT3G & Nexus ..i will add a folder aroud 11pm for Vibrant

http://google.com/neffstarr

thanks for the reply
[Hero CDMA Accessories] riggsandroid:
I know there is the thread about making your own cradle with a Seagate, but I get free $ to amazon.

Anyone use this?

http://www.amazon.com/Transfer-Char..._14?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1279215548&sr=1-14
[Hero CDMA Accessories] subcypher:
No, but that is friggin' sweet. I might have to consider that.
[Hero CDMA Accessories] radxcoresteven:
Definitely going to get that!
[Hero CDMA Accessories] jerry43812:
Advertising for personal profit I thought was prohibited on xda...
[Hero CDMA Accessories] riggsandroid:
Didn't realize you were the xda police. It's something I thought id include. Jerry you are annoying these days....

You need to relax a bit

Sent from my HERO200
[Hero CDMA Accessories] riggsandroid:
Are you upset I posted another cradle option to your $3 thread? And what about you advertising your website which has Google ads that you profit from? Geez jerry tough from your glass house isn't it.....get an evo and move on already...

Sent from my HERO200
[Hero CDMA Accessories] jerry43812:
Nope not upset at all... more power to you. You are asking people to send you private messages so you can give them your affiliate link to the amazon product for the 4% profit. I have google ads on the site I own for the people who come to it outside of xda. I haven't received more than 5 hits a day from xda for 2 weeks now.. Not any problem with me... i am well off without anything coming from here, xda only brings maybe 0.5% of what I get... so NO, the google ads have nothing to do with why I have my website in a few threads and in my signature, bud. All I said was that you're advertising blatantly for-profit and you don't like that I put it out there. And I don't care fi you think I am annoying. I am annoyed by you too. But do I be such a **** about it? Nope, not at all.

So, have a great Sunday and enjoy the rest of your weekend, sir.
[Hero CDMA Accessories] riggsandroid:
The point of my thread wasnt the referral which isn't 4% or anything like that.

So.....whatever man. Just pointing out the irony in your problem with my post.

Sent from my HERO200
[Hero CDMA Accessories] hilaireg:
Purpose of thread communicated; closed.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Gonesingle:
i need a voice recording software for my N1. I want 1 that will record for really long periods of time. is there 1 around?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bradyonly:
Have you tried searching for a voice recorder in the Market? There are tons of them... try them out.
[EVO 4G General] bigdogdan2:
For the people that have been converting dvd's and bluray for the evo:

What programs and settings are you using to get the best results?

I've been looking at various tutorials and many that reply say the output comes out pixilated or choppy. So what has worked the best for you.

Does the encoding process differ for bluray?
[EVO 4G General] mrniceguy715:
dvd fab will go from blueray or dvd. there is also handbrake thats is free and will do dvds or files
[EVO 4G General] bigdogdan2:
What settings are you using to get smooth playback?
[EVO 4G General] frifox:
i don't use physical DVD/BluRay discs but this is what i use to get all my vids evo-compatible:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=724944

and here's a sample output from a 1080p BluRay source. i'd say the quality is (more than) good enough :)

Computer

Windows 7 x64

Core 2 Duo e6600 @ 2.4GHz

nForce 680i w/ DDR2 @ 400MHz

Video source

File: MKV, 2hr37min, 2012 BluRay

Video: H264 High/L4.1 @ 1920x800 @ 12.1Mbps / 23.976fps

Audio: DTS 6ch @ 1.5Mbps

Encoding (w/ NeroAacEnc)

3:26 PM - PHP: script started (+0m)

3:33 PM - FFMPEG: wav audio extracted (+7m)

3:40 PM - NeroAacEnc: aac audio encoded (+7m)

6:38 PM - x264: h264 video encoded (+178m)

Results

Audio encoding - 205MB @ 182Kbps / 11x realtime

Video encoding - 890MB @ 788Kbps / 0.9x realtime

Total encoding - 1.1GB @ 973Kbps / 1.2x realtime

Screenshots

​
[EVO 4G General] bigdogdan2:
Thanks frifox. the pics do look good for converting vids.
[EVO 4G General] jonwlewis:
I just use Rock Player. It plays all different formats natively without conversion.
[EVO 4G General] IcerJo:
Jon does Rockplayer play 720p mkv's with subs? just curious cause my phone will be shipped next week and i have alot of 720p mkv anime :D
[EVO 4G General] frifox:
MKV, nope. 720p, rarely. Subs, nope... basically you're shyt out of luck if u watch anime (i do, hehe)

Your best bet is reencoding or just getting lower quality vids with hardsubbed subs n using RockPlayer
[EVO 4G General] IcerJo:
Ill just stick with my computer then :p
[Android Apps and Games] bobchadwick:
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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lex82:
I wanted to ask before I did it. If I transfer all my data that is on my 4gig card to my 8gig card and switched it out would it be fine? I have a lot of back up files and stuff on my 4gig, but doesn't the new card have to be formatted before you can use it? Sorry, I'm real stupid when it comes to external storage.

Thanks,

Alex
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarthsiegeTA:
It does have to be formatted as a fat32 drive, which you can do in Windows.

I did the same thing though (transferring from one card to another) and it worked fine.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lex82:
Cool, Thanks.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikipirs:
You're gonna be just fine transferring content from a 4GB to an 8GB SD. Just watch out for potential hidden files that might not get copied in the process. Usually they are either temporary or cache files that will get regenerated when you use the new SD for the first time.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lex82:
When I put my card in the card reader my computer doesn't find it, then I put it back in my phone and it's fine. What could be the issue? Would a PNY micro sd adapter work with a sandisk micro sd card?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lex82:
Well, I found out it was my card reader. It wouldn't detect anything over 2gigs. That's odd, but I got it to work at home. Thanks for all the help.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] graphic914:
I am on Sprint using Myn's warm donut, my vogue froze last night and and restarted it this morning. I tried to down load something from the market and it just kept saying downloading for over an hour finally canceled, tried something else and the same. Then tried opera mini and google browser and neither loads. I can see the 3g symbol but only the up arrow is flashing. Is there a setting I need to change?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] matt_so:
Same here. Appreciate any help....thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] opensky2:
RockPlayer 1.0 has been released today. Now you can download it from Android Market.

Please access rockplayer.freecoder.org for detail information.

Source code of ffmpeg part used in RockPlayer also can be downloaded from there, in tech column.

Enjoy it.
[Android Apps and Games] matthenry87:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=708045

Already a thread for this..
[Android Apps and Games] Vulpix:
rockplayer.freecoder.org refuses to work for the past 2 hours.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chopes:
Hey,

Anyone currently use a Blacklisting app that blocks incoming numbers that you can program in there that has had success? I see a few of them out there on the market but I am not sure which one is the best. Anyone have experience with these sorts of apps that could suggest one? (T-mobile n1 on 2.2)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarthsiegeTA:
I've seen that cyanogenmod includes one if you look under call settings.

Haven't gotten the chance to try it, as I don't get many calls these days.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techlogik:
iPhone had the iBlacklist that was real nice.

Wish there was something cheap/free similar to that.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
Of course you can already do that to contacts you have in the stock ROM, I suppose you want to do it to non-contacts..

I've blocked my dumbass car loan folks, as they call to remind me a payment is due starting 5 days before and then call 2-3 times a day if I'm late. Unfortunately I still get voicemails.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chopes:
Haha more or less same situation. Tried the one with CM, so far so good
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsapp:
I use extreme call blocker for that purpose. It has a lot of other features, but I don't use them, so I can't say how well they work. but they are only useful if you are trying to hide calls and texts
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chopes:
Ever have any issues with this in calls getting through or ringing once then blocking(as some apps do).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
Again, the build-in functionality to block calls is built-in and "just works", never even know the call was placed.. Unless a voicemail is left, of course.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LuLuBaby86:
I use CallFilter from the market. It's free and will also block unknown/private numbers as well as those not in your contacts. I've been using it for months and love it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsapp:
Sometimes I get a fraction of a ring, and the screen usually pops up, but I like that it end the call with out sending them to voice mail
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LuLuBaby86:
The numbers that I added to my blacklist prevent my phone from ringing. They go straight to voicemail. I don't even know I have a missed call until I look at my call log or they leave me a message. I love this app for the simple fact that I can block people who I hate and stupid people who like to play on my phone. There is also a pro version in the market as well.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeybags:
I use android firewall by lucky-dog xing...works perfectly. I'd never know they called if I didn't check the log, and it hangs up on then so you don't get voice mails.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elio:
SPC free from the market
[G1 General] macpod:
If you build your own serial cable for the G1 or use mtty, and boot your phone into the STOCK SPL (hold the camera button while booting) you will see the tri-color bootloader screen and the text "Serial0"

With a proper serial cable set to 115200 8n1 you will see a console that you can type stuff into.

each line is prefixed by "UART0:Cmd>"

task is a valid command For example

task 8 seems to reset the device

task 32 "Checks Security Level (Level=0xFF = Unprivileged, Level=0x00 = SuperCID) "

set is also a valid command however I haven't validated any arguments for it.

What other commands are avaliable? I have tried some of the documented Hermes_Boot loader commands with little success.

I have also parsed through the stock hboot binary for ascii strings and tried a few but to no success.

Has anybody gotten into the oemspl bootloader through stock too? I'm having trouble doing this. It would be really great to figure out how to issue AT command to the phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wimbet:
I've been using ADB the last couple of days to install apps on my Captivate and all of the sudden it stopped working today.

When I type 'adb devices' the phone comes up right away, but it shows offline.

I have tried reinstalling the drivers and Android SDK, but no luck. I've searched around and found some others with this issue, but haven't really found a fix that works for me.

Any idea why ADB would just stop working like that? I even performed a factory reset of the phone and put everything back to defaults.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wimbet:
Ok I almost pulled my hair out, but I found the problem.

For some reason, ADB does not work with the Samsung USB cable that came with the Captivate.

I switched to another USB cable and it works just fine.

Man, I really thought I was going crazy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meatrocket:
What the hell is that about!? I wish all these companies would stop trying to break from standards by proprietizing common cables.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirbo20:
I can't get the drivers to work. Where did you get yours?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smitty1:
Yeah I buy that, I couldn't even get the thing to try and connect at all with out switching usb connections on my computer.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] systoxity:
stock cable works. I just rooted and ran into that problem. In order to get around it if you cant get a diff cable, make sure that b4 you connect your phone to your pc you turn off your internet so it doesnt auto dl the drivers. b4 u connect, dl the drivers for your phone from the root thread. Plug your phone into ur comp with the internet off and close any pop ups. Go to device manager look for the notification labled usb or captivateand right click and select update. Select search from file on disk or select file (something like that, i forget) and scroll and select the folder where you extracted the usb drivers. Make sure the checkbox that says search subfolders is checked and click next to install. two more drivers will pop up in device manager after u install the first one. Repeat the same procedure for both of them and then you should be able to use adb just fine to root.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zerofx:
Just wanted to further confirm that using a different microusb cable works! I keep reinstalling the drivers but it kept showing the device was offline. Then I tried my old Nokia N85 cable and it worked like charm! So weird how usb cables aren't made equally, unless Samsung designed the cable to prevent using adb? :confused:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iLoki:
I had this issue for a little while, but I installed the Samsung Kies software (which contains drivers) and uninstalled the ADB drivers I had originally downloaded. It's worked like a charm since then.

Go to SamsungApps.com and then use the canada site, as the software isn't really available in the US yet.